Bicycling Australia

Junk K’s … Do They Count?

YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD THE term, but what are junk miles or in our case junk K’s, and are they are bad thing?

I went to the internet to find out what Google says it means and got back “Junk miles can be defined as cycling that has little or no training benefit and only serve to build fatigue”. So they must be bad, right?

Let’s be clear I’m not a coach, nor a sports scientist, I’m just your average punter who loves riding his bike.

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